BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18754, 6 January 1923, Page 9

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Pres* Association—By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK. January 4. An Australian minister (the Rev. Griffon Gordon), after touring the Continent, declared that prohibition was a decided success in every place that it was imposed. —A. and N.Z. Cable. ! NEW YORK, January 5. (Received Jan. 5, at 9.25 p.m.) The Public Relations Advisory Committee to the kinema industry,, which it composed of the leaders of national, civic, and educations! organisations, passed ; resolution opposing Arbuckle’s re-entry into pictures, and declared that it would bo harmful to children to display his films. —A. and N.Z. Cable. LONDON, January 4. The National Union of Railwayman granted a loan of £2OOO to the German railwaymen to tide them over the difficult times due to the depreciation of the mark. —A. and N.Z. Cable. MOSCOW. January 3, It is now learned that Admiral Stark’s Russian Tar Eastern fleet turned up at Shanghai on December 10. and was given two weeks in which to coal.—-A. and N.Z. Cable. [The fleet is reported to have reached Kamschatka, in North-East Siberik.] OTTAWA, January 4. Fire of unknown origin destroyed two more Canadian Roman Catholic institutions, bringing the total to 12 within a year. The buildings razed were the Good Shepherd Convent in Quebec and the Provencal School at Winnipeg.—A. and N.Z. Cable.